High-Level Language

BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
BASIC is a high-level programming language that was developed in the mid-1960s to provide computer education to non-science and non-mathematics students. It became the dominant language for early personal computers.
Compiler
A compiler is a computer program that transforms code written in high-level programming languages like FORTRAN or PASCAL into machine language.
FORTRAN
FORTRAN (Formula Translation) is a high-level computer programming language developed by IBM in the late 1950s. It was the first programming language that allowed programmers to express calculations through mathematical formulas.
Source Program
A source program is a computer program written in a high-level programming language (such as BASIC, FORTRAN, or Pascal) and fed into a computer for translation into machine language.

Accounting Terms Lexicon

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